"Apple's blockbuster winter quarter boosted by cheap oil, dinged by strong dollar" AppleInsider 8:37 PM
"Apple doing everything right under Tim Cook?" [Video Report] FOXBusiness 12/12
"Canadian Probe Zeros in on Apple's Contracts With Phone Companies: Watchdog Wants to See if Consumers Forced to Pay More for Wireless Services and Products" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/12
"Apple pacts in Canada may have raised prices: court filing" Reuters 12/12
"Jony Ive Is the Most Powerful Person at Apple" Above Avalon 12/12
"Why the Apple Watch can afford to cost thousands of dollars: Apple could learn a lot from Vertu's hyper-expensive phones" The Verge 12/12
"More Evidence That Apple's iPad Woes Are Just a Speed Bump" The Motley Fool 12/12
"Whoa, Maybe Apple Really Is Serious About Enterprise IT" TechNewsWorld 12/12
"214 In Review: 10 things we learned about Apple this year" Quartz 12/12
"Apple's sprawling, back-loaded 2014, and what to expect in 2015: Hardware pays the bills, but everything from payments to health is on the table." Ars Technica 12/12
"Five challenges facing Apple in 2015/Summary: Apple has had a cracking year, with stellar sales and sky-high revenues. But despite billions in the bank and products flying off the shelves in record numbers, the Cupertino giant has challenges to face over the coming year." ZDNet 12/12
"Apple 2015 Preview: From iPhone 7 To 12-Inch iPad Pro, 7 Must-Knows For Cupertino Watchers" International Business Times 12/12
"Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors: A former iTunes engineer testified in a federal antitrust case against Apple Friday that he worked on a project 'intended to block 100% of non-iTunes clients' and 'keep out third-party players' that competed with Apple's iPod." WSJ Blogs 12/12
"Apple ends its arguments in the DRM trial, but it's far from over: Questions remain about who will represent 8 million iPod buyers" The Verge 12/12
"2 Economists Better Than 1 Is Apple IPod Trial Strategy" Bloomberg 12/12
"Class-action lawsuit over 2011 MacBook Pro GPU issues extended to Canada" 9to5Mac 12/12
"You can now book a hotel room with Apple Pay" SlashGear 12/12
"Apple Online Store Adds PayPal as Payment Option" The Mac Observer 12/12
"Thanks to Apple, Dr. Dre had the most profitable year of any musician in history" TUAW 12/12
"Ford drops Microsoft's Windows Embedded, enabling support for Apple's CarPlay, Android Auto" AppleInsider 12/12
"Ford Drops Microsoft, Paving the Way for Apple's CarPlay" Mac|Life 12/12
"Apple's Zorlu Store Receives 'Supreme Award' at Structural Awards 2014" MacRumors 12/12
"Apple's Zorlu Center store in Istanbul wins design and engineering accolades" TUAW 12/12
"1976 Apple-1 sold by Jobs from his garage auctions for $365k" Digital Trends 12/12
"Buy an Original Apple Watch from 1995" Apple Gazette 12/12
"Here's Apple's OTHER watch, and it ain't pretty" Digital Trends 12/12
"Iowa planning America's first iPhone driver's license, working on privacy concerns" 9to5Mac 12/12
"Iowa Ready to turn Your iPhone into Your Driver's License" The Mac Observer 12/12
"Wal-Mart slashes iPhone prices" ["But there's a catch, of course. You have to sign a two-year service contract with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint."] CNBC 12/12
"Wal-Mart is cutting iPhone 6 prices" Fortune 12/12
"Crypto-Chat Quickly and Securely Encrypts Peer-to-Peer Conversations" prMac 8:46 AM
"Nature - The Best Pocket Secure All-in-One Personal Notes 2.0 Touch ID" prMac 7:12 AM
"Google introduces Route 85 web series geared towards iOS developers" 9to5Mac 12/12
"Elf Help - Elfing Made Easy for the iPhone and iPad" MacTrast 12/12
"'Dye' is a Free Way to Tint Your iOS Device With a Color of Your Choice" Modmyi 12/12
"Coming December 13: Gene Steinberg meets The Mac Observer's Bryan Chaffin and Macworld contributor Rob Griffiths, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 12/12
"Satellite photos of deserts and airports make perfect phone wallpapers" The Verge 12/12
"This tweak will make sure you never accidentally set an alarm for the evening" iDownload Blog 12/12
"BBM gets a brand new look on iOS and support for Lollipop on Android" Cult of Android 12/12
"Google Maps adds highway lane guidance for several European countries" iMore 12/12
"NewerTech Expands Award-winning Line of NuGuard KX Cases with Impact X-Orbing Protective Cases for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus" NewerTechnology 12/12
"Nemetschek Group launches new corporate design and website" Architosh 12/12
"'Rick Harrison's Trivia Challenge' Hits Social and Mobile Platforms, Incorporating Familiar Faces From The World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop" PRNewswire 12/12
"'Jenga' and 'The Journey Down: Chapter One' Go Free" Touch Arcade 12/12
"Clip for iOS lets you create and share 20 second videos with a soundtrack and lyrics" The Next Web 12/12
"Twelve South Launches new BookBook Cases for iPhone 6/6 Plus, and they look Awesome!" Run Around Tech 12/12
"Google's iOS app gets an Android-like makeover" Cult of Mac 12/12
"Microsoft wants game devs on board this holiday season" Neowin 7:12 AM
"Facebook dumps Microsoft Bing results from Graph Search" Neowin 7:35 AM
"Facebook drops Microsoft's Bing from Facebook search results: Summary:Facebook is no longer showing Bing Web search results in Facebook search results." ZDNet 12:44 PM
"Facebook Dumps Bing, Will Introduce Its Own Search Tool" TechCrunch 4:25 PM
"Microsoft's Xbox One has become the best-selling console in UK and US" ITProPortal 12/12
"Microsoft promise Windows 10 preview for the New Year" ITProPortal 12/12
"First look: IBM and Apple's new enterprise apps for iOS" InfoWorld 12/12
"Apple, IBM roll out first wave of mobile apps for business: Summary:The tech titans chose to tailor their initial batch of apps to enterprise customers in banking, retail, insurance, financial services, transportation and government." ZDNet 12/12
"UPDATE: Bank Of America Reinstates Coverage On Hewlett-Packard On Unlocking Value By Splitting Into Two" benzinga 12/12
"Why HP's Enterprise segment experienced a decline" Market Realist 12/12
"Intel has end-to-end reference model for IoT" PhysOrg 12/12
"Stifel Sees Business Trends Largely In-line For Oracle" benzinga 12/12
"On Cisco's 30th Birthday, 17,000 Employees Were Handed A New Manifesto" Business Insider 12/12
"Cisco Just Turned 30: This Is The Dramatic Story Of How The Founders Were Ousted" Business Insider 12/12
"The Morning Download: Cisco Pushing Into Real-Time Data Analytics" WSJ Blogs 12/12
"More enterprises are building their own private clouds" InfoWorld 12/12
"BlueData EPIC - making Big Data implementations easy" ZDNet 12/12
"Wall Street Sees Red Amid Collapse in Oil Prices" FOXBusiness 12/12
"U.S. Stocks Tumble; Dow Falls More Than 300 Points: Drop in Oil Prices Revives Growth Concerns" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/12
"Asia Markets: Japanese stocks break losing streak as yen softens/Japanese stocks broke their three-day losing streak on Friday, as the yen weakened against the dollar and before the country's general elections this weekend." MarketWatch 12/12
"Europe Markets: European stocks, Russian ruble skid as oil prices slump/European stocks sank Friday, driving the Stoxx Europe 600 to its worst week in more than three years, as energy shares continued to take blows from the oil-price slide." MarketWatch 12/12
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 12/12
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at the close of trading" Associated Press 12/12
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12/12
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